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AICTE Sponsored Two Weeks Faculty Development Programme (FDP) on

18th February, 2013 to 2nd March, 2013

Akhilesh Dwivedi, Assistant Professor, Dept. of IT, was delegated to attended AICTE Sponsored Two Weeks Faculty Development Programme on "Best Practices in Software Quality Engineeringand 21st Century Teaching Learning System" held at BharatiVidyapeeth's Institute of Computer Applications and Management (BVICAM) New Delhi during 18th February, 2013 to 2nd March 2013.

The FDP was attended by 67 participants from across 50 colleges all over the country. It was inaugurated on Monday, 18.02.2013 by Hon. Chief Guest Dr.Akhilesh Gupta Hon’ble Secretary, UGC, New Delhi. He shared few upcoming activities to be undertaken by UGC in next few years. He shared with the faculty members about the Doctorate programs and Revision of API for appraisal. He further added that UGC will provide special benefits to faculty members in various disciplines by funding the research projects to encourage quality research. He further shared his vision of taking UGC to the global standards with the help of its affiliated colleges/institutions which could be done through:

1. Development of Faculty

2. Development of Students3. Quality Research and Resource Development

Prof. M. N. Hoda in his welcome speech highlighted the importance and objectives of organizing faculty development programs. He opined that if faculty wants to develop themselves and their students, then attending such faculty development programs would enhance their skills practically in 21st century. He briefed the participants about the subjects chosen for FDP and highlighted the reasons and importance of the Best Practices in Software Quality Engineering and 21st Century Teaching Learning System. He also discussed the difference between teaching case studies and teaching through case method.

Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar Awardee, Prof. Karmeshu SCSS, JNU, New Delhi briefed about Relevance of Mathematical Models for Research in Computer Science. He spoke about essentials for inculcating mathematics which has enabled faculties to update their research and pedagogical skills to enhance the capabilityand to apply the mathematics in Computer Science with documentary proof of latest research papers in same area.

Mr. Amitesh Solanki, from TCS explained “Modern Learning and Pragmatic Pedagogies for Computer Science and Active and Interactive Learning: Formulation and Execution of Pedagogies for Computer Science, Curriculum Categorization as per Various Taxonomies of Human Learning and Development, Agricultural Model of Learning: Setting up the Environment and Controlling the Parameters”. Mr. Solanki concluded his session with a brief on “Evaluation, Assessment, Reporting and Judging the students”. Dr. V. K. Bashin from Delhi University spoke about “Time and Stress Management – A Three Dimensional Approach”. A very warm session on the topic “DNS and ARP Poisoning” was delivered by Dr. Maninder Singh Thapar University, Patiala.

On Monday, 25.02.2013, the program started with topic “Outcome Based Learning and Quality Assurance” by Prof. P. S. Grover, GTBIT which was followed by Case Study Based Teaching Learning Methodology by Prof. J. C. Kapur, IIPA. Later Dr. Karan Singh, GBU concluded the session with a discussion on the topics “Quality of Services (QoS) Issues for Network Protocol Design” and “Working with NS2 Simulator”.